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(DIR) Post #B6qt6JADkYoLPAwt96 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-05-31T09:47:58Z
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Jeff Bezoz in a recent interview opined over how terrible he thought it was that a "nurse making $75,000 from Queens" pays $12,000 a year in taxes. He mused about how this nurse from Queens might better use that money.And if you think a nurse from Queens is what he was really talking about may I interest you in some of #PicaTheCat 's exciting crypto currency investment opportunities. Mr. Bezos we don't think you, yes you personally are paying your fare share of taxes. That's the issue bub.
(DIR) Post #B6qtNGTizHtk019nxg by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-05-31T09:51:03Z
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I know several actual "nurses from Queens" they are drilling their kids in mathematics because in NYC if you have pretty good grades you might be able to go to a better high school and the regular schools have larger classes, fewer after school programs, and less experienced teachers. People get this, so if you have a kind of smart kid you try to get into one of the "specialized high schools"Why not make *all* of the high schools that good? We don't have the tax base to do that.
(DIR) Post #B6qtjDbaLnrtSWInfU by david_chisnall@infosec.exchange
2026-05-31T09:54:59Z
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@futurebird Funding schools out of property taxes is an astonishingly bad idea. It guarantees that your education outcome, which strongly correlates with earning potential, is tied to your parents’ wealth. If I had to design a policy to impede social mobility, this would probably be my first choice. The people rich enough to live wherever they want should be funding the schools for the people who can’t do that.
(DIR) Post #B6quAZjMCHontkyxFI by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-05-31T09:59:58Z
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@david_chisnall I agree. Though the point Bezoz was raising was more of a general "but we all HATE taxes" right sort of point. And dudes like him have used this point to rob out city, state and federal budgets in every way possible for decades. "but think of the nurse in Queens" the exact type of union job with modest benefits these clowns love to eliminate and turn into gig work. All while offering her a few hundred bucks saving on taxes while he runs off with billions.
(DIR) Post #B6quYSdYDs9sqcejJI by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-05-31T10:04:16Z
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@david_chisnall If the "but think of the nurse paying taxes" line works we're doomed.Why on earth is it a struggle at all for someone with an important job that requires extra training and education, a job that we can't live without, to survive?Why aren't her wages higher, the local schools better, the specter of poverty in old age less of threat? Why aren't there more solid career opportunities for her kids?
(DIR) Post #B6qulaFbE6fEE3i5zM by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-05-31T10:06:39Z
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@david_chisnall Why didn't Bezos use one of the many people who **work for him** as an example? Lots of Amazon employees in NYC. Oh that's right, most of them don't make 75k (this is the average salary in the US) they make a good bit less, little enough that his sad tax story falls apart since "wouldn't $300 extra dollars" doesn't fix the horrible salary.
(DIR) Post #B6qvFekD5EhoqmMrUO by TCatInReality@mastodon.social
2026-05-31T10:12:01Z
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@futurebird @david_chisnall Yes, if society thought more about increasing the social safety net and public goods/services - we wouldn't all need to focus on hording personal wealth pots to guarantee our health and retirement.What a stunningly inefficient system we have built. Well, actually, it's very efficient at concentrating wealth for a few thousand people.
(DIR) Post #B6qvIqCivrZHGGDume by kbm0@mastodon.social
2026-05-31T10:12:37Z
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@futurebird @david_chisnall Wealth inequality. There needs to be a point at which society stops rewarding "success" (or at least its realisation in monetary terms) and starts penalising it. Otherwise all the "success" gets sucked up by an ever smaller section of society. If the nurse is paying 1/3 of their income in taxation, why isn't the multi-billionaire paying 4/3 of theirs?
(DIR) Post #B6qw0vBpkzkzSvpIKe by capnthommo@c.im
2026-05-31T10:20:36Z
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@futurebird @david_chisnall all of this holds equally true for other states than the USA. Same goes in Britain and I'm sure much of the rest of the world. A few notable exceptions but by and large...
(DIR) Post #B6qwAyKYvzum6PhYvo by david_chisnall@infosec.exchange
2026-05-31T10:22:25Z
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@futurebird Though the point Bezoz was raising was more of a general "but we all HATE taxes" right sort of point. There's a group in the UK called Patriotic Millionaires that is pushing back on this idea and explicitly asking for higher tax rates for the most wealthy because they understand that the reason that they want to live in the UK is that it has a functioning society (still, mostly, despite Thatcher and her successors' sterling efforts to destroy it) and that requires investment to maintain. It also helps push back on the 'rich people will leave if you put up their taxes' narrative: they are rich people explicitly saying that they want to stay and be taxed more.
(DIR) Post #B6qwKwXMSRMDR4RVgG by clayfoot@mastodon.social
2026-05-31T10:24:13Z
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@futurebird @david_chisnall Bezos claimed that "You could double my taxes, and it wouldn't help.that nurse in.Queens." So, I looked it up. Jeff Bezos's effective tax rate is 1.1% of his actual growth in *wealth* each year. If doubling to 2.2% wouldn't help that teacher in Queens, how about triple? 10x? 50x?
(DIR) Post #B6qws9bosTLTX9MdzU by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-05-31T10:30:15Z
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@david_chisnall "Let's just live without any government or taxes at all" says the guy with all the money. "I promise it will work out just fine. I'll be nice, I promise."
(DIR) Post #B6qynd16JRg5CV9vFI by dzwiedziu@mastodon.social
2026-05-31T10:51:48Z
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@futurebirdWeird spelling of “Jeffrey Bozos” :thonking:
(DIR) Post #B6r2KJfzXaJSdUZ1Iu by fenex33@mastodon.social
2026-05-31T11:31:19Z
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@futurebird At this point you're just being really unfair. Won't someone think of the poor billionaires /s
(DIR) Post #B6r5PhvX6XJX9t5ywS by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-05-31T12:05:56Z
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@Twotired once again....https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/116030408739264165
(DIR) Post #B6r7hU2XfrmjD3yhE0 by BoysenberryCider@mastodon.social
2026-05-31T12:31:32Z
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@futurebird I hope enough people wake up to the fact that he's engaging in such obvious misdirection means he's aware that he's breaking the law (yes it's all technically legal and it's considered avoidance, not evasion - it shouldn't be). He has consciousness of guilt, and he's arrogant enough to think he can hide it.The fact that he even feels compelled to try to hide it in public instead of skipping the interview, tells me he fears the guillotine. Things are getting better.
(DIR) Post #B6r8sGWKNcYuQ2cC4e by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-05-31T12:44:43Z
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@Twotired Yeah. I always end up investing in her schemes every time too. At least she tried to help me garden this morning. #picathecat #cats #catsofmastodon #caturday #tabby #tabbycat
(DIR) Post #B6r9HnCtzMc92ChX4S by colleeneh@mastodon.social
2026-05-31T12:49:16Z
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@futurebird amazing balance, have to chuckle looking at those little cat toes 😄
(DIR) Post #B6r9MHNpjgXbmbxBho by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-05-31T12:50:09Z
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@Twotired oh no...I just realized she can voteand .,.. worse??? run for office!
(DIR) Post #B6r9PnK9RD7xiJuKES by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-05-31T12:50:47Z
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@colleeneh Her feet crack me up all the time for some reason. She's just so prim and serious and yet so goofy.
(DIR) Post #B6r9bBQc9vn3eoMSK8 by jmax@mastodon.social
2026-05-31T12:52:49Z
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@futurebird @Twotired The pictures speak for themselves. Elegant.
(DIR) Post #B6rA4x3OAU4ZlLgyPY by Burn_this_@beige.party
2026-05-31T12:58:10Z
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@futurebird @Twotired ❤️❤️
(DIR) Post #B6rB4nOu9pNZmLFIEy by irina@wandering.shop
2026-05-31T13:09:21Z
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@futurebird Pica for president! @Twotired
(DIR) Post #B6rBhdtJRoUhZxzZx2 by BashStKid@mastodon.online
2026-05-31T13:16:23Z
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@futurebird @Twotired She has lovely coat markings.
(DIR) Post #B6rDWbXW3AiH0bf4NM by GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai
2026-05-31T13:36:47Z
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@futurebird I don’t even think about his fair share of taxes, I think he has too much damn money The only reason to attack him is that amount of wealth should not exist
(DIR) Post #B6rDZkE6D22yor4ogS by GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai
2026-05-31T13:37:22Z
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@futurebird The other angle to this is that Republicans believe people who don’t pay taxes should not vote
(DIR) Post #B6rG5oNCWidar5kiEi by sjcooke66@mastodon.social
2026-05-31T14:05:34Z
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@futurebird 💥 💯
(DIR) Post #B6rGF9qe3LDo44yu12 by Asbestos@pnw.zone
2026-05-31T14:07:11Z
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@futurebirdBoth you and him are correct.
(DIR) Post #B6rGmCsbnnGx1Weu36 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-05-31T14:13:15Z
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@datarama @david_chisnall @kbm0 Same honestly. Only camera equipment and the occasional book makes me feel a little poor. I deserve the three volume set "Miniture Orchids" why is it three hundred dollars? (yes yes library is nice, but some books I like to have so I can write in them and fill them with sticky notes.)
(DIR) Post #B6rH3pkEYZ0yU499F2 by mcahalane@mastodon.world
2026-05-31T14:16:22Z
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@futurebird billionaires shouldn't be a thing.
(DIR) Post #B6rHqYSdbcxt4K9Fjc by jmax@mastodon.social
2026-05-31T14:25:14Z
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@futurebird Alas, I will be unable to invest in Pica's cryptocurrency, as I am currently tied up with puchasing, through her agency, an inter-boro silicate hardware pipeline property from lower Manhattan to Fulton Street.
(DIR) Post #B6rHw5Wk5t3L4NhsFk by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-05-31T14:26:16Z
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@jmax Very sensible. What could possibly go wrong? Nothing. Obviously.
(DIR) Post #B6rI7gQvDac8iXVsVE by jmax@mastodon.social
2026-05-31T14:28:20Z
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@futurebird Real estate. And what a location!
(DIR) Post #B6rJOkoUHo9BBAEuno by Darberoom1954@mastodon.social
2026-05-31T14:42:36Z
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@futurebird 23% of Amazon workers relied on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) yeah this is kind of terrible too! 😈 🖖
(DIR) Post #B6rQCM86vsBEpRSAtM by crazyeddie@mastodon.social
2026-05-31T15:58:48Z
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@futurebird If he paid his fair share then hers wouldn't be so damn high. She could keep more of it without having to sacrifice caring for others and helping build up her society.But instead she's trying and failing to help pay the way for leeches who've grown the size of fucking planets.
(DIR) Post #B6rW28rM11ssV781Tc by sarae@ecoevo.social
2026-05-31T17:04:08Z
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@futurebird are nurses really getting paid that badly in greater NY right now?
(DIR) Post #B6rXwatl3TU1dGjdpI by Lyle@cville.online
2026-05-31T17:25:35Z
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@futurebird been a while but I used to have a whole tax strategy for NYC combining annexation, congestion pricing, land value tax, parking fees, and sugary drinks tax to do things like this and fix transit. Not sure there will ever be the political will to fix the tax base but Mamdani is giving me some hope
(DIR) Post #B6rq8S0djDO6iIl1M0 by thelmadonna@mas.to
2026-05-31T20:49:27Z
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@futurebird Haven’t heard what caused his latest rocket to explode on launch. Hmmmmm …
(DIR) Post #B6sJ9AqJw3xaQucylU by twipped@twipped.social
2026-06-01T02:14:27Z
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@futurebird @david_chisnall the way both our tax preparer and our fidelity adviser just assumed we wanted ways to avoid having to pay taxes astonished me.